Taylor Lorenz

But it's like she's correct.

Like the reason that these movements have aside from from, you know, serving a very specific political purpose by, you know, minorities tokenizing themselves for profit because it's politically expedient for them, you know, for their own sort of career.

I think like it's true that the Democratic Party takes minority voters for granted.

Like when Joe Biden was running in 2020, like this is like one of the main arbiters of like that crime bill in the 90s that like incarcerated unprecedented levels of black people.

Like none of these people in the Democratic establishment really do care about minorities, I would argue, you know, but neither do the conservatives.

But it's like, I don't know, there is this compelling argument.

And I do think that like a lot of people have been feeling more and more disenchanted with the Democratic Party.

And so like they end up falling for these right wing narratives.

A hundred percent.

I mean, Candace was always tokenized herself.

Like Candace has always been the token black person.

We can get into, I don't want to like jump ahead to the turning point stuff, but Candace was always a very useful tool to the Republican movement, especially the MAGA movement in Trump 1.0.

Ironically, Trump 2.0 is more diverse.

He gained significantly in the Latino vote.

He did gain some Black voters.

I think the demographics of the country are shifting.

A lot of young people of color did vote for him during this most recent election.

But certainly back in the late 2010s, I think that there was not a lot of diversity in that Trump sort of inner circle coalition.

And so I think that she served a very useful purpose.

Also, she's beautiful and compelling and charismatic.